Category: Issue 72
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Stained Glass to be Featured in Masterpieces: Art and East Anglia Exhibition
Masterpieces: Art and East Anglia will run at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich from 14 September 2013 to 24 February 2014. The exhibition will feature a panel from the church of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich. The panel is one of six surviving from a series originally of fifteen, depicting the apocryphal story…
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Canterbury Glass at the Getty Museum
As mentioned in Vidimus 68, an exhibition opens this month at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, featuring six important examples of English stained glass, 12th-century panels from Canterbury Cathedral. The exhibition, entitled Canterbury and St. Albans: Treasures from Church and Cloister, will display the panels alongside the St Albans Psalter, one of the…
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Watch Stained-Glass Work at Canterbury Cathedral!
Videos of the stained-glass conservators working at Canterbury Cathedral are available to watch on Youtube! Viewers can keep up to date with the conservation of the South Oculus window and watch the return of the panels and the fitting of the frames, a fascinating insight into the skilful manoeuvring of glass and metal. In time…
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Book on Stained Glass by the Birmingham School of Art
A new book has been published on the glass of the Birmingham School of Art. Stained Glass Window Makers of Birmingham School of Art, by Ray Albutt, compiles the work of glass-makers trained as artists and craftsmen at Birmingham School of Art [Fig. 4]. The book discusses the development and importance of the first municipal…
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New Research into Medieval Red Glass
A new article on the production of medieval red glass is now available to read online here. The research, entitled ‘Technology, production and chronology of red window glass in the medieval period – rediscovery of a lost technology,’ was conducted by Jerzy J. Kunicki-Goldfinger, Ian C. Freestone, Iain McDonald, Jan A. Hobot, Heather Gilderdale-Scott and…
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Stained Glass Centre Autumn Lecture
The Stained Glass Centre’s autumn lecture will be given by Sarah Brown, Director of the York Glaziers Trust, and is entitled ‘The East Window of York Minster (1405-8): the conservation of John Thornton’s medieval masterpiece’. The York Glaziers Trust is currently engaged in the HLF-funded conservation of York Minster’s Great East Window of 1405–1408, the…
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Barley Studio: Celebrating 40 years of Design and Mastery in Stained Glass
The second feature in our occasional series on notable British institutions or organizations involved in stained glass, this month’s article looks at Barley Studio, which turns 40 this year. In 1973, Keith Barley founded Barley Studio, working originally from his home in York, and later from the premises at Dunnington (just outside York), where the…
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In praise of… Florence Elsie (Matley) Moore, FSA (1900–1985)
This is the third in our series of occasional articles profiling pioneering scholars of stained glass in the United Kingdom. The previous article can be read here. This instalment by our Features Editor, Roger Rosewell, focuses on the life of Florence Elsie (Matley) Moore, a talented watercolourist whose accurate copies of medieval stained-glass windows were…